The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1887-10-22
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by the last OF October 2OUO men Will De
Mt work in the Brooklyn navy-yard.
QUEEN KApIoLANr has bestowed upon
several Boston officials the Order of Kapi.
0lani.
The very large yield of nuts this year
pressages a cold winter. SO say the
prophets.
PAeE's jump Of six feet four inches over
bar-thus beating the records re-
markable feat.
BERLIN is the only large German city
that refuses to velocipedists the freedom
of the streets.
A FLORIDA millionaire offers to give 1OO,-
600 acres of pine lands in Georgia to evict-
cd Irish families.
THERE are now in use $4,000 nautical
miles OF cable. Nine cables connect Eu-
rope and America.
CHINESE troops stationed on the Russian
frontier have mutinicd and murdered q
number of their officers.
The day is rapidly approaching when
the base ball bulletin boards will bc
nipped by the early frosts.
ENGLAND complains that Americans
have one fishing policy for the Atlantic
and another for the Pacific.
The Dominion Government will soon
send a carload of Holsters to the Pacific
Coast for propagating purposes.
New York has eight State tickets in the
field. The last to wheel into line calls
itself the Personal Liberty party.
DR.. HENRY d. CoGGswELI, of San Fran
cisco, has endowed an Industrial school in
that city to the extent of S1,0O0,0O0.
Boston CoRBETr, the man who shot John
Wilkes Booth, has been placed in the Kan.
sas State Insane Asylum as incurable.
A NEW YoRK bank teller is missing, and
yet his accounts are all straight How
surprised the directors must have been.
The epidemic of scarlet fever in Lon-
don continues to spread. There are now
nineteen hundred cases in the hospitals.
Mrs. HUGHES, mother of Thomas Hughes,
("Tom Brown, of Rugby') died at her
residence at Rugby, Tenn, few days ago.
TIL. London Telegraph thinks that out of
$50 members of the House of Lords only
about one hundred amount to any thing.
IT is reported that being with face
that is half man and half dog lives near
Oil City, Pa. He or it goes upon all
fours.
A HORSE that recently fell on and killed
an Indian near Garfield, Idaho, was made
the subject of u barbecue by the surviving
relatives.
Mrs. WILBUR +. STOREY has refused
S35O,OOO for her interest in the Chicago
Times. She aspires to obtain complete
control of it.
SHERIDAN receives as Lieutenant Gen.
eral OF the Army salary of Sl1 900 year.
with allowances which bring this amount
up to $4,000.
The organ in the new auditorium build
ing, in Chicago, will be the largest in the
United States. 1t will contain 5000 pipes
and cost $4,000
The play-goers Of New York are to have
big Chinese theater which will cost $780,
O00 New York and vicinity, has about
10000 Celestials.
DENVER has arranged for Gilmore's band
and other talent for the celebration next
June of the thirtieth anniversary of Col.
orado's settlement
MOUNT WILLIAMSON, in Inyo, CAL, is the
grandest peak in the United States. 1t
stands 5000 feet high. Two of the three
submits are inaccessible.
MINNIE RHODES, of Chenango, N. Y,
shot herself rather than dig potatoes
enough for dinner, as she had been or
dered by her prosaic father.
TEE sheriff of Cook County, ILL.,, has re.
ceived 5000 applications for tickets of ad.
mission to the execution of the Anarchists,
and the rush has only begun.
PHILADELPHIA woman, Mrs. Lottie
Parker, is another victim to the tight lac
ing habit. The physicians testify that her
death from heart disease was due to that
cause.
In Memphis SO many people have taken
out their telephones that the few remain
ing subscribers have ordered out their in
struments on the ground that they have 10
one to talk to.
NORTH CAROLINA is sparsely settled, and
1T is u strange fact that, although it is
three times as large as Massachusetts, its
largest city, Wilmington, boasts of only
10000 inhabitants.
PHILIP HONEY, of Stafford, Va, owns a
mule which is said to have attained the
age OF tifty-one years. The animal once
brown, Is now beautiful gray and is only
a tritlc sway-backed.
BuFFALo's head in bronze metal,
weighing $500 pounds, will decorate the
eastern entrance of the Union Pacific
railroad bridge over the Missouri river
connecting Council Bluffs with Omaha.
The corn palace in Sioux City, Iowa, is
constructed entirely Of ears of corn and is
. wonderful affair. All the decorations
inside are made OF corn, and at the lunch
counter corned beef is the piece de resist,
ance.
MEMPHIS is in the midst of q telephone
war,over one thousand persons having or.
dered the instruments removed from their
houses. The present charges are $50 per
annum, which the company proposes to
raise to S72.
THERE are four great accumulated
masses of gold in the world: s2S2, 900, 900
in the United States Treasury, s237, 900 600
In the National Bank of France, slO7, ,OOO, 900
in the National Bank of Germany and
500, O,OOO, 900 in the Bank of England.
The Chicago Ners printed welcomes to
Cleveland in Algonquin, German, French,
Hebrew, Norwegian, Swedish, Bohemian,
Gaelic, Welsh, Spanish, Russian, Turkish, |
Arabic, Flemish, Italian, Japanese and |
Servian, each properly translated for his
benefit.
lr is estimated that the discoveries, in
ventions and compounds patented each
year In the United States and never |
amounting to any thing cost IS, 100000.
"A ACALIFoRSIA millionaire, who died not |
long ago, baqueathed $1,000, 600 to the two
daughters Of a lawyer at Nashville, Tenn,
As testimonial OF gratitude to the law.
Yer, who loaned him 500 when he frat.
went to California and was greatly in need